Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§29 Disposal of surplus material for the Public Health Service
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer such motor-propelled vehicles and motor equipment, including spare parts, pertaining to the Military Establishment as are or may hereafter be found to be surplus and no longer required for military purposes, to (a) the Department of Agriculture, for use in the improvement of highways and roads under the provisions of section 7 of the Act approved February 28, 1919, entitled, “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the fiscal year 1920, and for other purposes:: Provided, however, That no more motor-propelled vehicles, motor equipment, and other war material, equipment and supplies, the transfer of which is authorized in this Act, shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for the purposes named in section 7 of said Act than said Department of Agriculture shall certify can be efficiently used for such purposes within a reasonable time after such transfer; (b) the Post Office for use in the transmission of mails; and (c) the Treasury Department, for the use of the Public Health Service under the provisions of section 3 of the Act approved March 3, 1919, entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharge sick and disabled soldiers, sailors and marines.
(Mar. 15, 1920, ch. 100, §1, 41 Stat. 530; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 156, 41 Stat. 1365; Repealed. Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, §1(45), 65 Stat. 703)